SaveTheInternet

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SaveTheInternet
(STI)
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legal form International citizens' movement
founding June 12, 2018
Seat Muggensturm
main emphasis Network policy, copyright
Chair Dominc Kis
people Pascal Fouquet
Website savetheinternet.info

SaveTheInternet is a grassroots network political movement that emerged from the protest against the EU copyright reform . She gained notoriety for her petition against the reform, which was also supported by public figures.

Act

Over 5,300,000 signatures against the EU copyright reform were collected on the Change.org petition platform. At its peak, SaveTheInternet, together with other associations, organized mass protests against the reform with around 200,000 demonstrators in over one hundred cities in Europe, including over 40,000 in Berlin with a final rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

SaveTheInternet was founded by activists on June 12, 2018 and started a petition on Change.org on June 15. After a vote in the Legal Affairs Committee on June 20, the petition, which had grown to several hundred thousand signatures, was presented to representatives of the EU Parliament on July 4. The following day, the movement was a great success, as Parliament rejected the proposal of the Legal Affairs Committee. Therefore, there was a further vote on the individual articles of the directive in September 2018. In the run-up there was massive lobbying on the part of the media groups and rights exploiters, which is why this vote went out in their favor and the reform was included in the negotiations with the trialogue . On February 18, 2019, shortly before the end of the trialogue negotiations, the petition, which has now grown to over 4,700,000 million signatures, was also handed over to the German Federal Minister of Justice Katarina Barley . At the same time, the campaign, which had been mainly digital until then, was moved to the streets. On February 16, between 1,000 and 2,000 people demonstrated in Cologne. On March 2, 2019 , the alliance organized a demonstration with 3,000–5,000 participants in Berlin at around 13 , which attracted great media attention. Therefore, the EPP parliamentary group leader Manfred Weber tried to bring forward the vote in parliament in order to anticipate the mass protests that were already being planned for March 23rd, whereupon a spontaneous demonstration in front of the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus (Berlin) on March 5th with around 2,000 demonstrators by the Protest movement was organized. In the following days there were dozens more demonstrations and the mass protests on March 23, 2019 in over one hundred cities in Europe, in which a total of around 200,000 people took part. The largest took place in Berlin and Munich with several kilometers of parades and an estimated 40,000–50,000 demonstrators. However, on March 25, the EU Parliament approved the negotiated reform.

In the course of the protests against the upload filters , Wikipedia also showed its solidarity in several countries and switched a blackout page to draw attention to the protests.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Rall: Copyright reform averted: Our success is not the end yet. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ tagesschau.de: European Parliament passes copyright reform. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/urherberrechtsreform-unterschriften-101.html
  4. ↑ https://www.change.org/savetheinternet
  5. ^ A b Europe-wide protests against the EU copyright reform. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Stop the censorship machinery! Save the Internet! Retrieved September 11, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Philipp Rall: Copyright reform averted: Our success is not the end yet. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Alexander Fanta: The EU Parliament puts a veil over the Internet: Vote for upload filters and ancillary copyright [update]. In: netzpolitik.org. September 12, 2018, accessed on September 11, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ tagesschau.de: 4.7 million signatures against EU copyright reform. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Markus Reuter: More than a thousand people are demonstrating against upload filters in Cologne. In: netzpolitik.org. February 16, 2019, accessed on September 11, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Demo against copyright reform: Thousands oppose Article 13. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  12. ^ Vote on EU copyright reform: Chronicle of Confusion. March 5, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  13. ^ "Save The Internet" supporters oppose the CDU. March 7, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Europe-wide protests against the EU copyright reform. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Markus Reuter: Demos against upload filters: All numbers, all cities. In: netzpolitik.org. March 23, 2019, accessed on September 11, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ tagesschau.de: European Parliament passes copyright reform. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .